Monday, August 13, 2012

Tourism, growing and changing

AP
reports that Cuba’s tourism sector performed well in 2011, with visits up seven
percent and revenues up 12.8 percent over 2010.

Part of the story has to do with
Cuban tourism, following the 2008 end to the prohibition on Cubans staying in
hotels in their own country.Xinhua reports on
how Sol Melia is marketing its hotels to the Cuban public, noting that there
were 1.3 million hotel stays (sounds high, doesn’t it?) by Cubans (including
Cuban Americans) in Cuban hotels last year.

The promotion has been going on
for some time; see this Granma
piece from 2010.And an item on Cubans
in Varadero hotels here.